Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

Cover Art–04/13/07


The Grey Charger

This week’s cover, The Gray Charger, by Sir Alfred J. Munnings is one of the paintings that will be featured at the National Sporting Library’s exhibition “Reflections Of A Life With Horses: Sir Alfred J. Munnings’ Paintings From The Paul Mellon Collection At The Yale Center For British Art.” (see p. 41).
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The Grey Charger

This week’s cover, The Gray Charger, by Sir Alfred J. Munnings is one of the paintings that will be featured at the National Sporting Library’s exhibition “Reflections Of A Life With Horses: Sir Alfred J. Munnings’ Paintings From The Paul Mellon Collection At The Yale Center For British Art.” (see p. 41).

The exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Mellon, a great philanthropist of the 20th century and one of the most esteemed bene-factors of the NSL.

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The Yale Center For British Art (Conn.) lent 16 oil paintings from Mellon’s collection for the exhibition in Middleburg, Va.

Munnings, the foremost equine artist of the 20th century, often criticized so-called “modern art.” However, Munnings owed much to the techniques that Impressionist painters developed. This oil on canvas dated 1920 is a good example:  The artist’s brush strokes are quick, loose and visible; his treatment of the walking horse represents a snapshot of ordinary life, a brief incident captured almost by accident.

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